Visit the home of the Bristol Dinosaur Visitors to the village of Tytherington where the West's very own dinosaur, the Thecodontosaurus, was discovered in the 1970s, will have the opportunity to learn more about this amazing local resident on Wednesday 31 October as part of South Gloucestershire...
October
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1 12 Mercury 1.6N of Spica 17 1 Moon at perigee
3 7 Venus 0.1S of Regulus 17 2 Mercury 1.2S of Moon Occn
4 13 Jupiter stationary 18 13 Mars 1.9S of Moon
4 23 Moon at apogee 18 16 Antares 5.7S of Moon
5 8 Aldebaran 4.3S of Moon 19 6 Moon furthest South (-21.1)
5 10 Mercury 3.2S of Saturn 20 13 Plu...
Title: A new Herschel view of the young star T54: not a transitional disk? Authors: L. Matrŕ, B. Merín, C. Alves de Oliveira, N. Huélamo, A. Kóspál, N. L. J. Cox, A. Ribas, E. Puga, R. Vavrek, P. Royer, T. Prusti, G. L. Pilbratt, P. André Context: Observations of transitional disks give us an understand...
Lease renewed for Mt Washington Observatory The lease for the nonprofit observatory has been extended through 2014. The observatory, located in space at the Sherman Adams building at Mount Washington State Park on the 6,288-foot summit, will pay $285,000 through the five years. [url=http://ww...
Charles Moss Duke, Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is a retired US Air Force brigadier general, and a former United States astronaut for NASA. As lunar module pilot for Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest of the 12 people who have walked on the Moon. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 FK35 Earth MOID = 0.2262 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 13.86849 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.56356775 Peri. 303.04290 +0.73234820 +0.65502543
a 1.4515722 Node 18.48468 -0.23639045 +0.50077934
e 0.5813192 Incl. 35.92717 -0.63858098 +0.56582837
P 1.75 H 18.2...
Four teams of postgraduate students have been selected to fly their experiments during a new ESA programme called 'Fly Your Thesis!'. This exciting programme, launched by the ESA Education Office in 2008, offers a rare opportunity for students to design, build, and eventually fly, a scientific...
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune f...
Title: The Chemical Signature of a Relic Star Cluster in the Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy - Implications for Near-Field Cosmology Authors: Torgny Karlsson, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Ken Freeman, Joe Silk We present tentative evidence for the existence of a dissolved star cluster in the Sextans d...
A New Class of Extragalactic Objects A blazar is a galaxy with an intensely bright central nucleus containing a supermassive black hole, much like a quasar. The difference is that a blazar can emit light with extremely high energy gamma rays that are sometimes over a hundred million times more energ...
Title: EG Andromedae: A Symbiotic System as an Insight into Red Giant Chromospheres Authors: Joseph Roche Symbiotic systems are interacting binary stars consisting of both hot and cool components. This results in a complex environment that is ideal for studying the latter stages of stellar evol...
Title: Objects orbiting the Earth in deep resonance Authors: J. C. Sampaio, E. Wnuk, R. Vilhena de Moraes, S. S. Fernandes The increasing number of objects orbiting the Earth justifies the great attention and interest in the observation, spacecraft protection and collision avoidance. These stu...
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